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DrNefario
Posted 2014-05-01 9:30 AM (#7453 - in reply to #7452)
Subject: Re: 2014 RYOC April Update		Quote Reply



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Location: UK		Five real books for me in April. I'm not sure how many virtual books that works out as, but it included the longest book on my list (Surface Detail by Iain M Banks - 632 pages) and the shortest (The Time Machine by H G Wells - 71 pages). This means I've read a total of 19 books from a provisional list of 50.

Page counts were a bit weird this month. I started with a hugely oversized paperback of Jhereg by Steven Brust, and finished with a well-spaced Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, at 173 and 472 pages, respectively. I suspect they were actually about the same length, if they'd been printed in the same format.

I also bit the bullet and removed Mistborn from the End of the World Challenge. Although it is very definitely post-apocalyptic, it is not set on our world, and I decided that was a key component of the EotW Challenge for me: it has to be our world that is ending or has ended.

In just a few hours - I think - I should also find out which of the award challenges I can count last month's God's War towards. (I'm predicting that it won't win the Clarke, which will still mean I need to decide which award to count it for in the Second Best.)

My standings:

Women of Genre Fiction: 8/12
Book Ones: 9/12 (reviews complete)
Masterworks: 4/12 (3 SF, 1 MW)
12 in 12: 4/12 (Nebula, Shirley Jackson, Campbell, Locus YA)
Second Best: 4/12 (Locus F, Mythopoeic, Locus SF, Locus YA)
Read the Sequel: 4/12
End of the World: 5/12
Read More: 2/12
Guardian: 3/7
Elizabeth Noun: 1/3

So, just the Read More of that Author which is significantly behind schedule - to be expected given that the WoGF is all-new authors.

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